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Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs
15th International Conference, SEMANTiCS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9–12, 2019, Proceedings
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SEMANTiCS 2019 took place during September 9–12, 2019, in Karlsruhe, Germany. SEMANTiCS offers a forum for the exchange of latest scientific results in semantic systems and complements these topics with new research challenges in areas like data science, machine learning, logic programming, content engineering, social computing, Semantic Web, and many more. This year was the 15th edition of the SEMANTiCS conference series, which has developed into an internationally visible and professional academic event.
Participants learn from top researchers and industry experts about emerging trends and topics in the wide area of semantic computing. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas such as artificial intelligence, knowledge discovery and management, big data analytics, e-commerce, enterprise search, technical documentation, document management, business intelligence, and enterprise vocabulary management.
Web Semantics and Linked (Open) Data
Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management, and Deep Semantics
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques
Semantic Information Management and Knowledge Integration
Terminology, Thesaurus, and Ontology Management
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
Natural Language Processing
Data Quality Management and Assurance
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Semantics in Data Science
Semantics in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
LegalTech
Following the great success of SEMANTiCS 2018 in Vienna, we received 88 submissions. In order to properly provide high-quality reviews to these submissions, we set up a Program Committee (PC) comprising of 111 members to help us select the papers with the highest impact and scientific merit. For each submission, at least three reviews were written independently from the assigned reviewers in a single-blind review process (author names are visible to reviewers, but reviewers stay anonymous). After all reviews were submitted, the PC chairs compared the reviews and discussed discrepancies and different opinions with the reviewers to facilitate a meta-review and suggest a recommendation to accept or reject the paper. Overall, we accepted 20 full papers and 8 short papers from the 88 submissions which resulted in a full paper acceptance rate of 23%.
Semantic Information Management
Knowledge Discovery and Semantic Search
Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge Extraction
Natural Language Processing
Thesaurus and Ontology Management
Linked Data and Data Integration
Distributed Ledger Technologies
Smart Connectivity and Interlinking
Special Track: LegalTech
Special Track: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Special Track: Knowledge Organization and Application for Complex Industry Settings
The Posters and Demos Track provided an opportunity to present late-breaking research results, smaller contributions, and innovative work in progress. 29 original submissions and 2 re-submissions from the research track were accepted to this track, selected with a peer-reviewing process from a total of 47 poster and demo submissions. The reviewing committee, which included 88 members, provided at least three reviews per submission. The accepted works have been published within the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series.
Besides the scientific track of the conference, a call for industry presentations was launched, which resulted in 47 submissions of which 37 were accepted for presentation in the industry track. Additionally, an exhibition took place where organizations presented their semantics-based products and services.
Deliberate long breaks, in a well-suited venue, took place throughout the conference and social events provided excellent opportunities for networking with people interested in semantics-related topics from different disciplines and parts of the world.
We are grateful to our keynote and invited speakers for sharing their ideas about the future development of knowledge management, new media, and semantic technologies with our attendees:
Michael J. Sullivan (Oracle): “Hybrid Knowledge Management Architectures”
Michel Dumontier (Maastricht University): “Accelerating Biomedical Discovery with an Internet of FAIR Data and Services”
Andy Boyd and Brendan Nielsen (Shell): “High-grading Business Decisions through Semantic Technology”
Valentina Presutti (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche): “Looking for Common Sense in the Semantic Web”
Katja Hose (Aalborg University): “Querying the Web of Data”
Andreas Harth (Fraunhofer Institute): “From Representing Knowledge to Representing Behaviour”
Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer): “LegalTech – To whom it may concern”
Many thanks also go to all authors who submitted papers and of course to the PC who provided careful reviews in a quick turnaround time.
Special thanks go to Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer Germany) and Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) who organized all industry related activities. We also would like to thank Thomas Thurner and Martin Kaltenböck from the Semantic Web Company for providing the organizational infrastructure and taking care of all the operational tasks. Additionally, we would also like to thank our local organization team Stefan Summesberger, Viviene Vetter, and Julia Holze, as well as all those helpful hands that are too many to name for supporting this year’s conference and turning it into a success.
Premium Sponsors: eccenca, PoolParty, FIZ Karlsruhe, and CAS
Gold Sponsors: Semiodesk, metaphacts, and i-views
Silver Sponsors: Siemens, Ontotext, Franz Inc., Allegrograph, Enterprise Knowledge, Deloitte, and HP Motion Content
Bronze and Research: CID, Fraunhofer IAIS, Bosch, inovex, Oracle, Prêt-à-LLOD, STI Innsbruck, GNOSS, Klarso, Ontopic, and SICK
Special thanks also go to the partners of the conference who are:
University of Basel, BID - Bibliothek & Information International, Cefriel, Connected Data London, Consiglo Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cyberforum, DBpedia, eccenca, FIZ Karlsruhe, GFWM, IBM, KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TIB, University of Paderborn, University of Fribourg, Springer LNCS, Wolters Kluwer, and WU Vienna.
We hope that SEMANTiCS 2019 will provide you with new inspirations for your research and with opportunities for partnerships with other research groups, academic, and industrial participants.
Conference Chairs
- Harald Sack
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany
- York Sure Vetter
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Tassilo Pellegrini
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Research and Innovation Chairs
- Maribel Acosta
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Special Track Chairs
- Sabrina Kirrane
Institute for Information Business of WU Wien, Austria
- Victor de Boer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Industry and Use Case Chairs
- Christian Dirschl
Wolters Kluwer Germany, Germany
- Andreas Blumauer
Semantic Web Company, Austria
Poster and Demo Track Chairs
- Mehwish Alam
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany
- Ricardo Usbeck
Paderborn University, Germany
Workshop and Satellite Events Chairs
- Anna Lisa Gentile
IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
- Irene Celino
Cerfriel, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Proceedings Chairs
- Maria Maleshkova
University of Bonn, Germany
- Tassilo Pellegrini
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Promotion Chairs
- Thomas Thurner
Semantic Web Company, Austria
- Julia Holze
AKSW, InfAI, Leipzig University, Germany
- Stefan Summesberger
plantsome communication, Austria
Local Chairs
- Thomas Thurner
Semantic Web Company, Austria
- Vivien Vetter
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany
Sponsoring Chair
- Stefan Summesberger
plantsome communication, Austria
Permanent Advisory Board
- Sören Auer
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Germany
- Andreas Blumauer
Semantic Web Company, Austria
- Tobias Bürger
BMW Group, Germany
- Christian Dirschl
Wolters Kluwer Germany, Germany
- Victor de Boer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Anna Fensel
Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria
- Dieter Fensel
Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria
- Mike Heininger
GfWM Austria, Austria
- Sebastian Hellmann
Institute of Applied Informatics e.V. at the University of Leipzig, Germany
- Ute John
GfWM Germany, WissensWertSchöpfung, Germany
- Martin Kaltenböck
Semantic Web Company, Austria
- Elmar Kiesling
TU Wien, Austria
- Tassilo Pellegrini
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Axel Polleres
Institute for Information Business of WU Wien, Austria
- Felix Sasaki
DFKI, W3C Fellow, Germany
- Harald Sack
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Program Committee - Research and Innovation Track and Special Tracks
- Harith Alani
The Open University
- Vito Walter
Anelli Politecnico di Bari
- Luigi Asprino
University of Bologna, STLab (ISTC-CNR)
- Sören Auer
TIB, University of Hannover
- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
IRIT, CNRS
- Sebastian Bader
Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme IAIS
- Stefan Bischof
Siemens AG Österreich
- Carlos Bobed
everis, NTT Data
- Loris Bozzato
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Carlos Buil-Aranda
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
- Paul Buitelaar
Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
- Irene Celino
Ceriel
- Davide Ceolin
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Pierre-Antoine Champin
Liris, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1
- Vinay Chaudhri
SRI International, USA
- Ioannis Chrysakis
FORTH-ICS, Greece
- Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu
Babes-Bolyai University
- Oscar Corcho
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Gianluca Correndo
University of Southampton
- Enrico Daga
The Open University
- Ben De Meester
Ghent University
- Elena Demidova
L3S Research Center
- Sylvie Despres
Laboratoire d’Informatique Médicale et de BIOinformatique (LIM&BIO)
- Chiara Di Francescomarino
Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst
- Stefan Dietze
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Anastasia Dimou
Ghent University
- Jens Dörpinghaus
Fraunhofer
- Mauro Dragoni
Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Irst
- Anca Dumitrache
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Jérôme Euzenat
Inria, University of Grenoble Alpes
- Victoria Eyharabide
STIH Laboratory, Sorbonne University
- Michael Färber
University of Freiburg
- Catherine Faron Zucker
Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
- Said Fathalla
University of Bonn
- Ingo Feinerer
University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
- Javier D. Fernández
Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Agata Filipowska
Poznan University of Economics
- Nuno Freire
INESC-ID
- Roberto Garcia
Universitat de Lleida
- Raúl García-Castro
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Daniel Garijo
Information Sciences Institute
- Annalisa Gentile
IBM
- Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez
ExpertSystem
- Michael Granitzer
University of Passau
- Alasdair Gray
Heriot-Watt University
- Paul Groth
University of Amsterdam
- Peter Haase
metaphacts
- Benjamin Heitmann
RWTH Aachen University
- Lars Heling
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Eelco Herder
Radboud University
- Pieter Heyvaert
IDLab Ghent University – imec, Belgium
- Rinke Hoekstra
University of Amsterdam
- Geert-Jan Houben
Delft University of Technology
- Zhisheng Huang
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Shimaa Ibrahim
Bonn University
- Marc Jacobs
Fraunhofer
- Tobias Käfer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
University of Southampton
- Elias Kärle
STI-Innsbruck
- Tomi Kauppinen
Aalto University School of Science
- Dimitris Kontokostas
University of Leipzig
- Efstratios Kontopoulos
Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology – Hellas, Greece
- Tobias Kuhn
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Christoph Lange
Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
- Maxime Lefrançois
MINES Saint-Etienne
- Isaac Lera
UIB
- Steffen Lohmann
Fraunhofer
- Vanessa Lopez
IBM
- Vincent Lully
Sorbonne Université, France
- Nicole Merkle
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik am KIT
- Lyndon Nixon
MODUL Technology GmbH
- Leo Obrst
MITRE
- Jan Oevermann
University of Bremen, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- Harshvardhan Jitendra Pandit
ADAPT, Trinity College Dublin
- Heiko Paulheim
University of Mannheim
- Catia Pesquita
LaSIGE, Universidade de Lisboa
- Jasmin Pielorz
Austrian Institute of Technology
- Jędrzej Potoniec
Poznan University of Technology
- Cédric Pruski
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- Filip Radulovic
Sépage in Paris, France
- Alessandro Raganato
University of Helsinki
- Artem Revenko
Semantic Web Company GmbH
- Giuseppe Rizzo
LINKS Foundation
- Oscar Rodríguez Rocha
Inria
- Anisa Rula
University of Milano-Bicocca
- Marta Sabou
Vienna University of Technology
- Vadim Savenkov
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
- Stefan Schlobach
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Pavel Shvaiko
Informatica Trentina
- Ruben Taelman
Ghent University – imec
- Sanju Tiwari
Ontology Engineering Group
- Konstantin Todorov
LIRMM, University of Montpellier
- Riccardo Tommasini
Politecnico di Milano
- Jürgen Umbrich
Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)
- Victoria Uren
Aston University
- Mathias Uslar
OFFIS
- Herbert Van De Sompel
Data Archiving Networked Services
- Frank Van Harmelen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Maria Esther Vidal
Universidad Simon Bolivar
- Joerg Waitelonis
yovisto GmbH
- Shenghui Wang
OCLC Research
- Ziqi Zhang
Sheffield University
Additional Reviewers
- Wazed Ali
TIB
- Imran Asif
Heriot Watt University
- Javad Chamanara
L3S
- Andrea Cimmino Arriaga
Universidad de Sevilla
- Diego Collarana
IAIS Fraunhofer
- Mirette Elias
University of Bonn
- Simon Gottschalk
L3S
- Prashant Khare
The Open University
- Allard Oelen
TIB
- Nicolas Tempelmeier
L3S
